Really glad we’re regressing back to selling women like cattle. In 1888 (2. Centuries. Ago!) the Maharaja of Vizianagaram introduced a bill to ban the practice of selling girls in marriage to Brahmins. https://twitter.com/malawdy/status/1347174688095571968
Today, the Karnataka government is introducing a scheme to *encourage* this practice that in 1888, the Maharaja of Vizianagaram tried so hard to stamp out. The bill didn’t pass because of the more conservative members of the Madras Assembly, but that didn’t hamper him.
He reached out to his friend, acclaimed Telugu writer Gurujada Apparao to write a play exposing the evil of the practice (and to build public opinion against it). From this came Gurujada Apparao’s first work, Kanyasulkam, a classic of Telugu literature.
H/t to @theteluguarchive, an excellent handle in forgotten Telugu history. They’re on Instagram.
H/t to @theteluguarchive, an excellent handle in forgotten Telugu history. They’re on Instagram.
H/t to @theteluguarchive, an excellent handle in forgotten Telugu history. They’re on Instagram.
You can follow @MVijay88.
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